Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] more [subord] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the most apparently distinguished honours are a reward for little more than longevity or political servitude . |
| 2 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 3 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 4 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 5 | Abrasive cleaners : At their simplest these are the scouring powders formulated from little more than sand or feldspar , the aggregate and a small amount of chlorine release agent . |